Block W1, Regent Street (One Vine Street) is the latest property to be awarded BREEAM Excellent
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The Way We Do Business
Our aim is to apply the best modern working practices, manage business risks effectively, to work efficiently and demonstrate value for money. We are committed to dealing honestly and fairly with people. We continue to work to ensure that all appropriate strategies and policies are communicated to our business partners, suppliers, advisers, contractors and stakeholders and this is particularly important in relation to sustainability. We acknowledge the work of our business partners in helping us to achieve our targets and we are committed to the principles of responsible procurement.
RESPONSIBLE PROCUREMENT
High Level Commitment:
We will work with our suppliers to ensure environmental and social good practice, and we will help and encourage them to adopt sustainable solutions.
Statement of Belief:
We believe that we should take some responsibility for the environmental and social impacts of our suppliers, which also pose reputational risks to our business.
Having pursued our sustainability agenda for some five years, in 2008 we reviewed our approach to ensure that sustainability was truly embedded in within our organisational structure and business strategy. This has resulted in the restructuring of our sustainability governance and a re-evaluation of our long-term sustainability aims. As preparatory work on this is still ongoing we will launch the new strategy, together with long-term targets, in the autumn of 2009.
In the meantime we are committed to improving our sustainability performance and will be extending the scope of our baseline data collection to help the development of meaningful, long-term targets. We are also pursuing a number of shorter term targets and other actions to ensure the continuing improvement of our performance.
Please see the 2009 annual report for details of achievement against our 2008/09 targets and our targets for 2009/10.
